Improvement in carpet-bag frames



UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

PETER BORN, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

IMPROVEMENT IN CARPET-BAG FRAMES.

Specication forming part of Letters Patent No. 56,168, dated July 10, 1866; autedated June 29, 1866.

To all whom fit may concern;

Be it known that I, PETER BORN, of the city, county, and State of New York. have invented a new and useful Improvement in the Manufacture of Frames for OarpetBags, Ste.; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description thereof, which will enable others skilled in the art to make and use the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, forming part of this specication, in which Figure 1 represents a side elevation of my invention as applied to the jaws of a carpet bag frame. Fig. 2 is an inverted plan of the same. Fig. 3 is a side elevation of the same as applied to the cover of a carpet-bag frame. Fig. 4 is an inverted plan of the same.

Similar letters of reference indicate like parts.

This invention consists in producing the jaws of frames for carpet-bags, valises, and other similar articles by gluing a number of thin layers of wood on top of each other, each layer being bent to the desired form over a suitable mold, until the desired thickness is obtained, in such a manner that strong, durable, and cheap frames of wood can be produced, and the difficulties heretofore experienced in the manufacture of wooden frames for carpet-bags and other similar articles are obviated.

rIhe invention consists, also, in manufacturing the covers of frames for carpet-bags, valises, and other similar articles of two or more layers of wood glued together in suitable manner and shape, so as to increase the strength and durability of said covers and to render them cheap and easily made.

Alrepresents one of my jaws, made by gluing together a number of veneers or thin layers of wood, said veneers being bent over a suitable form or mold, until the desired thickness and strength is obtained. The veneers are taken wide enough for a dozen or more jaws, and.` after a piece 'of the desired thickness is obtained it is eut in a number of pieces of the required thickness. By this arrangement the difficulty heretofore experienced in steaming the wood and bending it over t-he former is entirely avoided, the jaws when ready are ynot liable to split at the corner, and they can be produced at a comparatively small expense.

The cover B is also produced of a series of veneers glued together over a suitable former, and it is contemplated to facilitate the manufacture of the covers by making pieces for six or more at a time and cutting them up afterward in pieces of suitable width for the covers. Acover made according to this invention is stronger and more durable than a cover made in the ordinary manner of one piece of wood, the veneers being glued together so that their grain runs in opposite directions and that the wood is not liable to split.

By these means I am enabled to make strong, durable, and cheap frames for carpetbags and other similar articles entirely out of wood, whereas by the old method of steaming and bending asolid block of wood and cutting the same up in pieces suitable for jaws the ber of the wood is strained to such an extent in the corners that the jaws split and crack after a short time; and furthermore, the labor required for producing wooden jaws according to this method is very great and expensive.

My jaws are easily made. Each veneer can be bent without difculty, and the jaws, as well as the covers, `are strong and durable.

I do not claim my invention to make frames for carpet-bags, ctc., of wood 5 but I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent- Making the jaws and covers of .frames of carpet-bags, valises, Ste., of a series of veneers or layers of thin wood fastened together in the manner herein specified.

PETER BORN.

Witnesses:

M. M. LIVINGSTON, G. L. TOPLIFE. 

